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in red
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| | | | | | | Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 16:55 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Off Topic, you can add the color information to macro tags:
{p=30033,5}
{p=30364,2}
These numeric color codes come from the color guide: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogColors.asp
In Off Topic, firestar246 writes:
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | rab1234 | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 17:22 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Good tip there.
In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 17:26 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
Yeah, I forgot how to do that. 
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| | | | | | | Author: | WilliamRaine | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 18:31 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, firestar246 writes:
{p=30033,5}
Man it's unfortunate when you buy a used set and find out a part like this
is missing....
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 19:25 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Replace the curly braces by square braces if you want to use the macro tags!
In Off Topic, WilliamRaine writes:
| | {p=30033,5}
Man it's unfortunate when you buy a used set and find out a part like this
is missing....
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | WilliamRaine | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 19:37 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
| | Replace the curly braces by square braces if you want to use the macro tags!
In Off Topic, WilliamRaine writes:
| | {p=30033,5}
Man it's unfortunate when you buy a used set and find out a part like this
is missing....
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Realized my mistake too late! Aaaaand can't edit my post. I'll remember
next time!
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| | | | | Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 16:56 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| I'm not in this for the business part, but I feel like this is valuable market
research that I wouldn't freely give away if I was relying on it to make
a living as a BrickLink seller.
In Off Topic, rab1234 writes:
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| | | | | | | Author: | rab1234 | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 17:21 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| My gut tells me that 95% of Bricklink sellers would freely share this info.
This isn't like revealing your source for cheap bulk parts or sets or something.
The odds of this actually impacting your sales is so tiny, it's not even
worth thinking about.
Plus I would bet money that most people buying older lots with discontinued parts
are hobby sellers, not running a business.
-Blockbusting Bricks
In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
| | I'm not in this for the business part, but I feel like this is valuable market
research that I wouldn't freely give away if I was relying on it to make
a living as a BrickLink seller.
In Off Topic, rab1234 writes:
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 17:35 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| I don't know the proportion of sellers making a living out of their store,
but I believe you're right that most sellers would enjoy sharing their finds,
but I don't expect anyone who put the time in to make it to share a painstakingly
compiled list of ridiculously expensive parts to maximize their selling efficiency.
In Off Topic, rab1234 writes:
| | My gut tells me that 95% of Bricklink sellers would freely share this info.
This isn't like revealing your source for cheap bulk parts or sets or something.
The odds of this actually impacting your sales is so tiny, it's not even
worth thinking about.
Plus I would bet money that most people buying older lots with discontinued parts
are hobby sellers, not running a business.
-Blockbusting Bricks
In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
| | I'm not in this for the business part, but I feel like this is valuable market
research that I wouldn't freely give away if I was relying on it to make
a living as a BrickLink seller.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | rab1234 | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 18:05 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| meh whatever... just thought it would make for an interesting forum discussion.
Lego sales make up about 2% of my annual income, but account for about 20% of
my working time because it's so much more fun. 
In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
| | I don't know the proportion of sellers making a living out of their store,
but I believe you're right that most sellers would enjoy sharing their finds,
but I don't expect anyone who put the time in to make it to share a painstakingly
compiled list of ridiculously expensive parts to maximize their selling efficiency.
In Off Topic, rab1234 writes:
| | My gut tells me that 95% of Bricklink sellers would freely share this info.
This isn't like revealing your source for cheap bulk parts or sets or something.
The odds of this actually impacting your sales is so tiny, it's not even
worth thinking about.
Plus I would bet money that most people buying older lots with discontinued parts
are hobby sellers, not running a business.
-Blockbusting Bricks
In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
| | I'm not in this for the business part, but I feel like this is valuable market
research that I wouldn't freely give away if I was relying on it to make
a living as a BrickLink seller.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 19:24 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| It definitely did with a few great examples in this thread! However, a compiled
list is another matter.
In Off Topic, rab1234 writes:
| | meh whatever... just thought it would make for an interesting forum discussion.
Lego sales make up about 2% of my annual income, but account for about 20% of
my working time because it's so much more fun.
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| | | | | | | Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 17:28 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
| | I'm not in this for the business part, but I feel like this is valuable market
research that I wouldn't freely give away if I was relying on it to make
a living as a BrickLink seller.
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I'm not sure how this would affect anything business-wise... this information
is freely available to see on the site. Anybody looking for this piece or going
to sell the piece can see the value; or anybody browsing around for that matter.
Now where I get these parts, that I'm not going to reveal.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 17:31 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| The information if freely available, but the aggregation isn't. As such,
it requires quite a bit of legwork to find the juicy deals, and this legwork
is time spent which is a cost for someone trying to make a living out of their
BL store.
In Off Topic, firestar246 writes:
| | In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
| | I'm not in this for the business part, but I feel like this is valuable market
research that I wouldn't freely give away if I was relying on it to make
a living as a BrickLink seller.
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I'm not sure how this would affect anything business-wise... this information
is freely available to see on the site. Anybody looking for this piece or going
to sell the piece can see the value; or anybody browsing around for that matter.
Now where I get these parts, that I'm not going to reveal.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 17:43 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
| | The information if freely available, but the aggregation isn't. As such,
it requires quite a bit of legwork to find the juicy deals, and this legwork
is time spent which is a cost for someone trying to make a living out of their
BL store.
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I make a living off of our bricklink store, and I see no danger in this information.
A bunch of people knowing what pieces are rare and expensive aren't suddenly
going to make them suddenly cheap and common.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 17:45 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Fair enough, I commend you on this very generous attitude.
In Off Topic, firestar246 writes:
| | In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
| | The information if freely available, but the aggregation isn't. As such,
it requires quite a bit of legwork to find the juicy deals, and this legwork
is time spent which is a cost for someone trying to make a living out of their
BL store.
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I make a living off of our bricklink store, and I see no danger in this information.
A bunch of people knowing what pieces are rare and expensive aren't suddenly
going to make them suddenly cheap and common.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | dcarmine | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 17:53 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| I don't go making a list, but when I list something that sells for more than
$5 I am wonderfully surprised. It's like mining gold. When you find the nugget
once you want to buy more used lots just to find another one.
Donna
In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
| | The information if freely available, but the aggregation isn't. As such,
it requires quite a bit of legwork to find the juicy deals, and this legwork
is time spent which is a cost for someone trying to make a living out of their
BL store.
In Off Topic, firestar246 writes:
| | In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
| | I'm not in this for the business part, but I feel like this is valuable market
research that I wouldn't freely give away if I was relying on it to make
a living as a BrickLink seller.
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I'm not sure how this would affect anything business-wise... this information
is freely available to see on the site. Anybody looking for this piece or going
to sell the piece can see the value; or anybody browsing around for that matter.
Now where I get these parts, that I'm not going to reveal.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | tonnic | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 17:32 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, firestar246 writes:
| | In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
| | I'm not in this for the business part, but I feel like this is valuable market
research that I wouldn't freely give away if I was relying on it to make
a living as a BrickLink seller.
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I'm not sure how this would affect anything business-wise... this information
is freely available to see on the site. Anybody looking for this piece or going
to sell the piece can see the value; or anybody browsing around for that matter.
Now where I get these parts, that I'm not going to reveal.
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You can share it with me, we are like twinbrothers, just look at our names.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 17:44 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, tonnic writes:
| | In Off Topic, firestar246 writes:
| | In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
| | I'm not in this for the business part, but I feel like this is valuable market
research that I wouldn't freely give away if I was relying on it to make
a living as a BrickLink seller.
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I'm not sure how this would affect anything business-wise... this information
is freely available to see on the site. Anybody looking for this piece or going
to sell the piece can see the value; or anybody browsing around for that matter.
Now where I get these parts, that I'm not going to reveal.
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You can share it with me, we are like twinbrothers, just look at our names.
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Ok, I get them from... someplace else.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | tonnic | | Posted: | May 18, 2021 15:30 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, firestar246 writes:
| | In Off Topic, tonnic writes:
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| | In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
| | I'm not in this for the business part, but I feel like this is valuable market
research that I wouldn't freely give away if I was relying on it to make
a living as a BrickLink seller.
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I'm not sure how this would affect anything business-wise... this information
is freely available to see on the site. Anybody looking for this piece or going
to sell the piece can see the value; or anybody browsing around for that matter.
Now where I get these parts, that I'm not going to reveal.
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You can share it with me, we are like twinbrothers, just look at our names.
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Ok, I get them from... someplace else.
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Miles away from where I got them I guess.
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| | | | | | | Author: | rab1234 | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 18:59 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| That’s an interesting one. I just sold this set and don’t think I had any in
it. I see it’s only listed as an alternate. The part is still less than $1 though
so probably not a deal breaker for buyers I’m guessing. I just went off the regular
part out list and don’t think this was in it. I think a few went in my $4 per
pound bulk boxes, but not worth fishing through at that price.
In Off Topic, cosmicray writes:
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| | | | | Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 22:15 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| An easy way to find some would be to find some of the older sets that you know
are expensive and load up the inventory of each one in Brickstore and set the
part prices to the average 6 month sales average for used and you can find a
lot of good expensive parts that way.
Jim.
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| | | | | Author: | tec | | Posted: | May 18, 2021 15:25 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | MARBLED ones, any kind. |
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| | | | | Author: | melbourne_josh | | Posted: | May 20, 2021 09:31 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, rab1234 writes:
| | Anyone have a good list of random unexpectedly expensive parts? I buy lots of
used bulk lots from the 70s through today and *think* I'm pretty good at
picking out the weird expensive parts, but I've been surprised by some that
would seem common unless you know...
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are some I'm always on the lookout for, someone have a master list of individual
parts over like $5? I've got extra space in my brain and need to commit
some more stuff to memory.
-Blockbusting Bricks
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You'd better have a good memory, there are over 2200 parts (which have sold
more than once in the last six months) with a Used value over $5.
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| | | | | | | Author: | melbourne_josh | | Posted: | May 20, 2021 09:50 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | | You'd better have a good memory, there are over 2200 parts (which have sold
more than once in the last six months) with a Used value over $5.
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Here's Josh's Top 20 List of Moneymakers - Parts only, no figs.
Things you're likely to sell easily for big money, 2021-05 version:
[P=5292,11]
Well look at that. It's mainly electronics and motors. Go figure.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | rab1234 | | Posted: | May 20, 2021 10:13 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Wow to the star wars hatch. I've got that ship for sale, but thinking maybe
I should just sell the hatch and the figs and replace the hatch with a similar
one. Would probably make the same as what I'm asking for and get to keep
the ship. :-0
In Off Topic, melbourne_josh writes:
| | | | You'd better have a good memory, there are over 2200 parts (which have sold
more than once in the last six months) with a Used value over $5.
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Here's Josh's Top 20 List of Moneymakers - Parts only, no figs.
Things you're likely to sell easily for big money, 2021-05 version:
[P=5292,11]
Well look at that. It's mainly electronics and motors. Go figure.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | tec | | Posted: | May 20, 2021 10:49 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | I was expecting a tree in top10 |
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | May 20, 2021 11:09 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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* | | 58123bc01 Electric Power Functions Receiver Unit with Dark Bluish Gray Bottom and Black V2 Print (Version 2)
Parts: Electric |
I still have it, get it while supplies (of 1) last!
In Off Topic, melbourne_josh writes:
| | | | You'd better have a good memory, there are over 2200 parts (which have sold
more than once in the last six months) with a Used value over $5.
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Here's Josh's Top 20 List of Moneymakers - Parts only, no figs.
Things you're likely to sell easily for big money, 2021-05 version:
[...]
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Well look at that. It's mainly electronics and motors. Go figure.
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| | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | May 22, 2021 22:53 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, rab1234 writes:
This one is worth $100
[p=3069bpx7]
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| | | | | Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | May 23, 2021 07:02 | | Subject: | Re: Random expensive parts list | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| I just put my entire collection of Light Gray/Dark Gray parts for sale, and I've
been surprised by the prices of these parts:
while my all-time store oddities in terms of actual price compared to expected
price are these:
In Off Topic, rab1234 writes:
| | Anyone have a good list of random unexpectedly expensive parts? I buy lots of
used bulk lots from the 70s through today and *think* I'm pretty good at
picking out the weird expensive parts, but I've been surprised by some that
would seem common unless you know...
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